The front yards, footpaths and verges of Australian suburbs are spaces overdue for reinvention.

At Tolhuistuin, the government provides the land, old building stock and a maintenance budget for a fixed period while the creatives develop the precinct themselves.
Maurice Mikkers/flickrSeptember 20, 2016

The rise in temporary use of urban space requires a looser planning vision that can draw on this new type of city-making to inform longer-term developments.

The continued preference for detached housing in new suburbs is driving Perth’s urban sprawl and means two-thirds of dwellings built over the next 15 years need to be on infill sites to meet the state’s target.
perthhdproductions/flickrSeptember 19, 2016